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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Church polity"”.
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Reforming reformed church polity in South Africa's Black Reformed Churches (RCSA) : an African decolonial approach
The issue of decolonising the Reformed church polity in Africa and South Africa has its roots in the history of colonialism and missionary activity on the continent. The black Reformed churches in South Africa still operate primarily from within the Europe mindset especially in terms of church …
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The relevance of the Calvinistic understanding of ordination within the current Zimbabwean context
… in Zimbabwe. A special focus is on reformed churches, especially those who espouse Calvin as their theological ancestor. Herein lies the reason for the title of this thesis. The thesis highlights the continued significance of Calvin within the reformed churches (UCCSA and UPCSA) in Zimbabwe. …
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Authority, unity and truthfulness : the body of christ in the theologies of Robert Jenson and Rowan Williams with a view toward implications for free church ecclesiology.
Those within the free church tradition have often appealed to the notion of the invisible church to account for the unity of Christ's Body. A growing number of free church theologians, however, are arguing for the necessity of visible ecclesial unity, which immediately raises the perennial problem …
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The Role of Unpaid Elders in Southern Baptist Churches: A Mixed Methods Study
… fulfilled by unpaid elders in Southern Baptist churches. This project involved two phases. Phase 1 utilized a forty-five question survey which asked about duties of unpaid elders, competencies of unpaid elders, and barriers to decision making among elder teams. Phase 2 involved qualitative …
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Training Deacon Candidates for Ministry at First Chinese Baptist Church of Walnut, California
… candidates for ministry at First Chinese Baptist Church of Walnut, California (FCBCW). The training process involves assessing and increasing the knowledge of deacon candidates in regard to the biblical qualifications and practice of deacon ministry. Included at the end of the initial training …
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A study of the origin of Scottish Presbyterianism (1560-1638)
… for introducing the Presbyterian system in the Church. Several approaches are employed in this study. The modern approach to the Scottish Reformation is various indeed. W. Ian P. Hazlett offers the best useful summary concerning its method of approach classified into eight types: first, Catholic …
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Designing and Teaching a Pastoral Leadership Course for Students at Séminaire Baptiste Évangélique du Québec
… a good ecclesiology, (3) the necessity of good church polity, and (4) the necessity of leaders multiplying leaders. Chapter 4 details how the project was built and executed. Chapter 5 evaluates the overall project and provides explanations of the survey’s results and t-test. L'objectif de ce …
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The Role of the Unpaid Elder in Southern Baptist Churches: A Mixed Methods Study
… set forth. Institutions need leadership, and the Church is no exception. Benjamin Merkle asserts that while church polity is not the weightiest decision that a church will make, adopting a biblical form is essential for the health of the church as it determines who leads and teaches the church. In …
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A Glorious and Salutiferous Œconomy...? An ecclesiological enquiry into metropolitical authority and provincial polity in the Anglican Communion.
… How are the variously diverse national churches to be held together ‘in communion’? These questions have prompted an explosion of interest in Anglican ecclesiology within both the church and academy, with particular emphasis exploring the nature of episcopacy, synodical government, …
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Designing a Biblical Pastoral Ministry that Begins to Make Maturing Disciples at Cleary Baptist Church, Florence, MS
… in the lives of the people of Cleary Baptist Church. Finally, in chapter 5, the results of the ministry project are revealed. These results demonstrate that measurable spiritual growth can be accomplished through a biblical pastoral ministry. The results also reveal that little if any …
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Dissent and the Church of Scotland, 1660-1690
… three chapters deal with the post-Restoration church settlement and public reactions to that settlement, and these chapters are revisionist in approach. It is usually claimed that the decision to disestablish `presbytery' and revive `prelacy' in 1661 was unpopular, but the evidence in chapters …